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Structure dossier · WDID 0500572 · 1 · LEFT HAND CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:49 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1871-04-01 — 96th most senior of the 1289 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: TOLL GATE DITCH (1870-04-01). Immediately behind: CROCKER DITCH (1871-05-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7761.0 | 1871-04-01 | 1882-12-02 | 21.7877 | 0.0 | C | IRRCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,740 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,740 AF — 100% of that, and 8th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 2,271 | 15th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 154 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 1,625 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 153 | 14.0 |
| 2010 | 2,111 | 13th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 152 | 16.0 |
| 2013 | 1,883 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 155 | 14.5 |
| 2014 | 2,116 | 14th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 187 | 13.5 |
| 2015 | 1,465 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 192 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 1,897 | 11th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 184 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 1,656 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 163 | 16.5 |
| 2018 | 1,276 | 1st lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 138 | 13.5 |
| 2019 | 1,947 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 204 | 15.6 |
| 2020 | 1,371 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 159 | 13.0 |
| 2021 | 1,547 | 4th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 187 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 1,801 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 176 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 1,583 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 201 | 12.0 |
| 2024 | 1,740 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 214 | 22.0 |
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